Deans' stroke musings: Predicative factors of the effect of Body WeightSupport Treadmill Training in strokehemiparesis patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, September 4, 2020

Predicative factors of the effect of Body WeightSupport Treadmill Training in strokehemiparesis patients

Damn, more prediction crapola. Useless. Maybe, just maybe if you talk to survivors you will finally understand they want 100% recovery. NOT the crapola of the tyranny of low expectations you are pushing.

Predicative factors of the effect of Body WeightSupport Treadmill Training in strokehemiparesis patients

Hikaru Mori, RPT, MS1)*, Makoto Tamari, RPT, PhD2) 1) Kinki Rehabilitation College: 3-3-2 Mishima, Settsu City, Osaka 566-0022, Japan 2) Fukuoka International University of Health and Welfare, Japan

Abstract.

[Purpose]

The aim of this study was to determine if gait index predicts the efficacy of weight-support treadmill training (BWSTT) in hemiplegic stroke patients.

[Participants and Methods]

In total, 21 patients who had sustained a hemiplegic stroke, on an average 71 days prior, and could walk independently on level ground were included in the study. BWSTT was performed under 20% of bodyweight unloading at the maximum speed possible for each participant to a perceived level of fatigue of 15 on the 20-point Borg scale. The immediate effects of BWSTT were evaluated as the change in the following variables, calculated from 5 level ground gait cycles; walking speed and rate, root mean square, coefficient of variability, auto-correlation coefficient, and single leg stance time ratio. All indices were calculated from the triaxial accelerometer attached to the waist of the participant. Linear regression was used to identify predictive variables of BWSTT effectiveness.

[Results]

Only single leg stance time ratio on level ground was extracted as a predictor of BWSTT effectiveness.

[Conclusion]

Single leg stance time ratio was a predictive factor of improved gait symmetry after BWSTT and therefore, could be used as a factor to select patients who might benefit from BWSTT as a component of stroke rehabilitation.